Original Southern American Colonies

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Name of Colony	Date Founded	Reason for Colony’s Establishment	Founder	Primary Economic Base
Roanoke(Virginia)	1587	To establish themselves in NA	John White	N/A-did not last long enough
Jamestown(Virginia)	1607	To find gold and a water route to Asia	Captain John Smith	Tobacco
Maryland	March 25, 1634	To create a place where English Catholics could go	Lord Baltimore	Tobacco
North Carolina	1653	Settled to provide a buffer line for the south	King Charles II	Tobacco
Charleston(South Carolina)	1663	Colony was given to farmers who had been kicked off carribbean islands	King Charles II	Tobacco
Georgia	April 21, 1732	To re-settle English people in debt and poor people	James Ogelthorpe	Tobacco